Waste Medicine Disposal

If you have out of date or unwanted medicines, both prescription or over the counter drugs, don’t bin them or flush them.

You can take your unwanted or out of date medicines back to your pharmacy for safe disposal, and it’s completely FREE.

Each year enormous quantities of unused and expired medications are dumped into bins or flushed down toilets and sinks. The effects on the environment and human health are unclear but evidence is pointing to the presence of chemicals from prescriptions and over-the-counter medications in soil, drinking water and the surrounding environment. Just as proper medication administration is important, so is safe and cautious disposal.

Unused prescription medicines cost the NHS across the UK over £300 million every year.